Apart from my Ford list, which contains most of what you already listed

RS200
RS500 in Moonstone Blue
Escort Cossie (early big turbo model)
MKII RS1800

there are plenty other makes that I'd be hunting for:-

DeTomaso Pantera GTS (Ford powered anyway!)
Porsche 930 Flatnose Cabriolet
Lamborghini Countach QV5000
Lamborghini Miura S
MG Metro 6R4 (roadgoing version)
MG Metro 6R4 (rally-prepped and used as such)


I've tried designing my dream layout on Anyrail funnily enough, but it keeps saying I've exceeded the 50 pieces of track limit for the free version. I only needed to add another 6,452 pieces to that 50 as well 


Paul

There is a rather nice big house not too far from where I live with a helicopter landing pad and tennis courts as well as horse stables and large garage.

The stables would be converted to a fully insulated and heated railway building(we're not talking railway room here) or possibly just build one on the tennis court(don't do tennis),filled with n gauge layout and a hi tech work space complete with lathes and stuff like that,garages to house my Jaaags,XJ,XFR and new coupe thats just come out plus my series 1 Escort RS Turbo,Audi R8 and perhaps a Porsche Panamera(I do like ugly cars) and also a new,large purpose built building to rehouse our model railway club whereby the members subs would be reinvested in actual club layouts instead of rent.I would also need somewhere to put my sportsbikes as well but seeing as they are only smallish,I think a place inside the house would be appropriate,kinda like Carl Fogarty's championship winning bikes that he keeps in his entrance hall.

I might need a top if the range VW Transporter van for the exhibition layout as well,no motorhome for me,don't do camping.

Ooh,and before I forget,I'd probably make the bloke who owns Mercig Studios quite wealthy with my commisions as well as Legomanbiffo and Paul Chetter.Those sound decoders will need to be bought from somewhere now,won't they?

Its all but a dream but its a nice thought all the same.

Pete

I'd like to copy a US N scale layout called Moffat Road - it's just epic !


Video Rio Grande in the Rockies - Model Railroader Magazine

mmmmmmmm

firstly a nice BIG cheque for Help for Heroes,

then another for XH558 to keep her flying,

then a nice big railway room built, and the joy of not having to worry if I can afford that new rolling stock from Hattons, and maybe some custom runs from Bachmann.

and I suppose I could even manage a few bob to make sure this forum can continue.

cruises - nahh
super cars - nahh
mansions - nahh

just my few pennyworth

Well, I've never bought a lottery ticket - I don't gamble.  But let's suppose that, say, a mega-rich uncle I didn't know I had popped his clogs, or a Nigerian oil minister turned out to have been real, so it wasn't a 419 scam after all...

What would I do with £157,000,000?  Well, to start with, I think that much money would scare the pants off me.  And I couldn't in all conscience, keep much of it.  Keep/invest (ethically!) enough to 'see me out', and to live fairly comfortably, but then...  Well, my dear friend Dr Christine Orton is organising HPV vaccines for girls in Kenya:

http://www.educationforlife.net/archives/1248

Something like that - or several somethings like that - would seem like the best thing to do.  Oh, and sort out the church spire, and get the place renovated, redeveloped, redecorated, and generally fit to enable the next generation or three of the congregation to serve the city (whilst remaining strictly anonymous).

Yes, I probably would like a house with a railway room, and enough space to build a better N gauge railway - or railways - something Japanese, something Canadian, and something 'post-privatisation' British.  Not necessarily all that big, but big enough to be interesting operationally, without being overwhelming when it came to building or maintaining it.

But seriously, I'd feel terribly guilty about spending that sort of money on luxuries for me, when there's so much preventable misery in the world.

Build a layout ?

No - just buy MINIATUR WUNDERLAND.   

Quote from: Tank on June 25, 2013, 06:26:50 PM
With that money I'd buy some of the real things!

Me too. Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway would be a super layout to own! 

In reality few if any of us would actually be able to spend that amount of money even if giving sizeable chuinks away to friends and family, so I think it goes without saying that a fair amount would be donated to whatever charitable causes were closest to us

I think once I had the modest house, extensively stocked garage and all the fripperies I'd want, plus made sure those dearest to me were suitably catered for, I'd struggle to know what to do with the rest! Extravagant lifestyle doesn't interest me in the least


Paul

Hmm? What would I buy/build?

Various cars - Mustangs, Corvettes, Plymouth Prowler

A modest sized house with a glass wall into the garage so the cars can be seen

A tourist attraction like Pecorama to showcase model railways in all scales.

A production facility in the UK so model manufacturers don't have to rely on Chinese factories and batch production.

Michael

Forgot to mention, a trip in Branson's space ship
and a flight in a MiG 21 in Russia. With that sort
of dosh you could bribe the pilot to defect
and keep the MiG...

That would beat some old yank muscle car...

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Quote from: bluedepot on June 25, 2013, 08:54:53 PM
i have just added £157,000,000 woth to my shopping cart on hatton's website...  so it would be easy to spend...

I think you're their second biggest order then behind Newportnobby 

Paul

       

dave 

So even a small win would come in handy
Anyway, I reckon I'm the only one who has fessed up to my total orders

For me I would have several rooms turned into railways, HS1, GWR, Swiss and American. Plus a nice garden railway.

Quote from: GWR-Kris on July 01, 2013, 12:47:25 PM
For me I would have several rooms turned into railways, HS1, GWR, Swiss and American. Plus a nice garden railway.

Ah scrap that I will just get a full size loco, maybe a new build of the Silver Link.

Quote from: GWR-Kris on July 01, 2013, 12:49:16 PM
Ah scrap that I will just get a full size loco, maybe a new build of the Silver Link.

Fair enough ... but there are 6 A4s left in existence... why not resurrect an extinct LNER class (preferably a Gresley  ) instead ?